Ways to view President Obama's speech
On Friday, all members of the MIT community and the broader public will be able to watch a live webcast of President Barack Obama's MIT address about America's leadership on clean energy. The address is scheduled to begin at noon. As is common with Presidential visits, seating for the address in Kresge Auditorium will be extraordinarily limited and will be by invitation only. As Vice President for Institute Affairs and Secretary of the Corporation Kirk Kolenbrander noted in his letter to the community on Tuesday, the tickets MIT has for the event will be allocated in such a way as to be broadly representative of the Institute — and weighted to favor students. The speech will be webcast beginning at noon on Friday: the URL for the webcast will be posted in this article by Thursday afternoon. It will be cablecast on MIT Cable channel 8, while...